76: Chapter 72: The Big Dipper has 7 stars, with Jade Balance at the fifth position from the front.

76: Chapter 72: The Big Dipper has 7 stars, with Jade Balance at the fifth position from the front.

The Big Dipper has seven stars, with Jade Balance being the fifth.

After penetrating the five internal organs, cultivators in the External Building Environment will need to anchor the four cardinal star realms.

The exploration of the starry sky by cultivators has never ceased, yet it seems like an end has never been found.

It is said that Jade Balance Peak of the Three Mountains City corresponds to the Yuheng Star in the Big Dipper within the starry sky.

When the appointed time arrives, incredible changes will occur.

Of course, this is just a legend.

No one has ever confirmed it.

The only thing cultivators of Three Mountains City can confirm is that this peak has been one of the sources of the city’s beast calamities for decades.

Fierce Beasts almost incessantly pour down from this peak, intruding into the Maple Forest City Region, destroying official roads and grain fields, and devouring humans and livestock.

And now, the time has come to end it all.

Before Sun Heng, of course, no one dared think this way.

However, after the Vertical Pen Peak had been cleared, Jade Balance Peak naturally became the next target.

For this day, Three Mountains City had been building strength for two years.

The cultivators who died in battle needed to be replaced, the new cultivators needed to grow, and resources such as magic artifacts, healing medicines… all needed replenishing.

Two years was the limit.

Of course, if not for the trouble caused by the Heart-Consuming Demon, Three Mountains City’s preparations would have been more thorough.

But they couldn’t accumulate any further.

Under the rampage of the fierce beasts, the Maple Forest City Region had already entered a vicious cycle.

And new fierce beasts have appeared once again roaming around Vertical Pen Peak…

Time, was not on the side of Three Mountains City.

Therefore, although Zhuang Ting hesitated to give approval and did not allocate resources, the current City Lord Dou Yuemei still emptied the treasury to initiate the second clearing operation.

This time, many external reinforcements came to Three Mountains City.

Apart from cultivators from nearby city regions, there were even experts from beyond the borders.

For instance, a woman veiled with white gauze, said to be an expert from a mysterious sect in the country above the clouds.

She single-handedly held a line of defense, and within a mile radius, no one could approach.

The greatest barrier of Jade Balance Peak was not its steep terrain, but rather at the foot of the peak, where a swarm of murderous rock bees lived.

These fierce beasts were small in size but large in numbers, seemingly endless, and possessed extremely strong attack power, nearly unblockable.

They lived in the scattered rock caves at the foot of Jade Balance Peak, moving in groups.

The Three Mountains City side tried to cover a large area with Dao Techniques, but these murderous rock bees were inherently extremely sensitive to the fluctuations of Path Origin, often flying away before the Dao Technique even took shape.

Even if some were eliminated, it would only provoke the madness of the rock bees.

The murderous rock bees, numbering in the tens of millions, would swarm in, covering the sky and overwhelming everything in their path.

Two years ago, Sun Heng did not choose Jade Balance Peak as the breakthrough point precisely for this reason.

Two years later, Dou Yuemei chose Jade Balance Peak instead of Flycoming Peak, naturally she had made her preparations.

The ranks of the cultivators of Three Mountains City opened a gap, and Sun Xiaoyan, with a gloomy face, was pushed out.

“Mother!” he wailed, “Do you really want your son to go to his death?”

Holding Sun Xiaoman’s hand, Dou Yuemei looked at her son with smiling eyes, “I will hold on to your sister for you.

When you return victorious, I’ll make her sincerely apologize to you!

Be good, don’t be scared, you won’t die.

Your father is watching over you!”

My father is long dead.

Thinking of this, Sun Xiaoyan grew even more frightened, tears nearly bursting forth, smearing across his plump face.

However, under the watchful eye of his mother, he dared not stay still.

Although after Sun Heng’s death in battle, Dou Yuemei’s doting on this son was well known, indulging his every whim.

But Sun Xiaoyan himself knew that if Dou Yuemei truly resolved to do something, he would be unable to change it no matter what.

Just like the last time he went to Fenglin City for the tri-city Dao discussions, knowing he would be beaten up on the way, but since Dou Yuemei had tacitly agreed, he had no choice but to go out with tears, accompanied by his sister.

Amid the curious or amused gazes of the crowd, Sun Xiaoyan almost inched forward half a step at a time, his spherical body slowly moving ahead.

Jiang Wang and others arrived at Jade Balance Peak under these circumstances.

They did encounter quite a few acquaintances, as the Maple Forest City Region was the nearest, and naturally, there were more cultivators than just the team of Li Jianqiu that came over.

Jiang Wang even saw Fang Helling, though the man seemed much thinner after not seeing him for a while and had an added tenacity.

Somehow he had mixed into the team of Shen Nanqi, who ranked fifth on the Dao Honors List of Fenglin City.

Seeing him, Zhao Rucheng chuckled to Jiang Wang, “The Fang Family is now searching everywhere for evidence.

It is said they plan to take the case to the City Lord, accusing you of intentionally guiding Xiong Wen to the Fang family lands and causing innumerable deaths and injuries.”

Of course, that was a joke.

No matter how much Jiang Wang was involved, the essence of Xiong Wen sneaking into Maple Forest City was because of Zhu Weiwo’s pursuit.

The carnage Xiong Wen caused along the way, if anyone were to be held accountable, it would only be Zhu Weiwo who was qualified.

Would the Fang Family dare to trouble Zhu Weiwo then?

The answer was obvious.

However, although there were no major issues, minor troubles were inevitable.

At the moment, Jiang Wang had already received the Magic Artifact Longsword promised by Three Mountains City.

This sword was engraved with a Golden Light Arrow, which was not the ideal configuration for Jiang Wang.

However, the mere solidity of the sword itself was enough for Jiang Wang to treasure it.

He was playing with the Longsword when he heard the comment and just shrugged, “Otherwise, why do you think I wanted to avoid it?

Turned out I couldn’t avoid it after all.”

Zhao Rucheng laughed heartily.

What surprised Jiang Wang was that this time, Fang Helling did not show any reaction when facing him, not even a lingering glance, as if she no longer recognized him at all.

…

Meanwhile, Sun Xiaoyan shuffled half a step at a time, which eventually wore down Dou Yuemei’s patience.

This woman must have been extremely beautiful in her youth, and she still retained her grace, but when her brows slightly furrowed, a fierce temperament emerged.

“Xiao Pang, stop dawdling.”

Sun Xiaoyan’s eyes drooped with resignation, finally realizing that the situation was unchangeable.

Thus, with a cross heart and closed eyes, he charged headlong towards the largest cavern.

With a Raised Stone Fist, he smashed it into the ground!

Buzz…

buzz…

buzz…

A swarm of murderous rock bees surged out.

Countless stingers shot towards the invader.

Sun Xiaoman felt her mother’s grip tighten suddenly, almost crushing her finger bones, before releasing them in the next moment of shocked realization.

But Sun Xiaoman didn’t have time to cry out in pain, for she was also watching over her brother’s situation.

Murderous rock bees do not sting the deceased, nor do they readily shoot their stingers at non-threatening creatures, so the bait could only be a cultivator.

But aside from Sun Xiaoyan clad in the Kun-hide drum, who else could withstand a volley from the murderous rock bees?

It was human skin flayed from the Inner Mansion Realm powerhouse Sun Heng, inscribed with Array Patterns and combined with the effects of the Dao Technique of the Kun-hide drum, making its defense even more formidable than Sun Heng in life.

A dense rain of stingers fell to the ground, followed by a large number of dying murderous rock bees.

In that moment, stingers fell like rain, and Sun Xiaoyan’s plump figure stood right in front of it.

The Kun-hide drum held up!

But he cried out loud, “It hurts!

It hurts so much!

I can’t take it anymore!”

He turned to run back, seeking the safety of earlier surroundings and to flee the pain that he could not endure.

But he was stopped by a shout from Dou Yuemei, “Sun Xiaoyan, you are not allowed to move!”

With tears streaming down his face, Sun Xiaoyan still instinctively stopped in his tracks, wailing, “Mom!

It really hurts so much!

I can’t stand it anymore, I’m going to die from the pain, let me go back!”

“You are not allowed to move!”

The cultivators of Maple Forest City, who were already prepared, employed various Dao Techniques to shake the earth or summon winds, drawing the fallen rock bees closer for a unified kill.

This was Maple Forest City’s plan, to use the son of Maple Forest City’s Lord as bait to attract the rock bees’ attack.

After firing their stingers, the murderous rock bees would enter a weakened state, which is why they dropped en masse.

Normally, they would have their kin’s protection, but how could they tolerate their target wailing and making noise right in front of them?

Thus, another volley of stingers was launched.

Sun Xiaoyan cried incessantly from the pain, his fat trembling, but indeed, he was a child who listened to his mother, his feet rooted to the spot.

Dou Yuemei, holding back tears in her eyes, calmly issued command after command.

Although Sun Xiaoman often bullied her younger brother, she couldn’t stand to see him suffer.

She moved to dash forward but was abruptly pulled back by Dou Yuemei.

“Mom!

Xiao Pang must be in so much pain!” cried Sun Xiaoman.

“Otherwise, what do you think your father’s reason was for not giving you the Kun-hide drum?

He loves you so much!” Dou Yuemei’s emotions flared and then were swiftly reined in, as she tried to speak calmly, “This was your damn dead father’s plan before he died; he had already thought of how to deal with the murderous rock bees.”

Suddenly, Sun Xiaoman froze, and teardrops the size of beans could no longer be held back, falling pattering down.

She had not been without resentment, resenting her father for favoritism.

He always said he loved her most, but before he died, he chose to wrap her brother in an everlasting defense.

She had thought, how much her father must have loved her brother, to peel off his own skin for him.

Yet she never realized that she was the child her father had favored.

This was her father’s final gesture of love for her.

He could not bear to see his daughter suffer.

Nobody in Maple Forest City was willing to come; he came here alone.

His subjects were scorned as mountain barbarians, and from then on, Sun Heng called himself Sun Barbarian.

What hopes did such a man harbor when he named his own daughter Xiaoman?

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